Originally posted by roigam
If all people did this we wouldn't have violence and suffering would be reduced.
Mankind's problems can ~ and have been ~ tackled by concrete communal action.
Mortality rates have been improved. Diseases have been successfully fought, eradicated or managed. Health indicators across the board have been improved and these improvements felt by more people than at any previous time in human history.
Access to education has been spread to more people than ever before. More people have access to gradually improving justice systems. Oppression of women and other marginalized groups is slowly being rolled back. Human rights ~ both in practice and as recognized goals ~ have been advanced. Tyrannical political systems have been overthrown and replaced by imperfect but far better systems. Damaging and dangerous behaviours have been identified and tackled.
There is plenty of reason for optimism and proactive steps as an alternative to simply 'longing for the end of the world to come' ... a time when only the relatively tiny number of people who happen to be members of your religious organisation will supposedly be "saved" (or so the JW corporation has claimed in its publications).
Has your Christian love for your fellow humans tempted you to involve yourself in any concrete way in collective and personal political action to tackle injustice, threats to health, a lack of education, a lack of political freedom, along with violence and suffering, where these things continue to blight the lives of people?
Does your religious creed demand of you that you are passive, that you act as if you are unable to act, and behave as if you are politically impotent and, furthermore, assume that everyone else is too, when evidence of dedication, struggle and progress is all around you?.